After re-editing the website, and sending invitation for a presentation, about 50 persons showed interest for these projects. This is for me a good success. After interviews, I did listen to all the good reasons for not donate!

13 posts were published. Among them, a big surprise! OECD recommends “crowdfundings” as a diversification for companies way of financing, with continued shortage of credit from the banks, as if all money raised by taxations was not sufficient to create jobs. Companies are alone to develop themselves. “Every one for himself and God for All”! Some posts are to invite you to free webinars! They are for you!

2 main social media were used to publish information, one being Twitter, the second being Linked’In.

Twitter publishes 1 000 tweets a day, with 80% quotes. The pinned tweet has been retweeted 51 times and liked 74 times. Just for that I thank all my followers for engaging so far, and making great efforts to let others know about these projects. Engagement rate moved from 0.1% to today 0.6 %, with a pick up to 1%. One of the top tweet is a quote from Sonnenberg (I believe), “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid”, which I find very inspiring for this crowdfunding, because “If you judge my projects (especially the one on social media) with their ability to be similar to Something known, I will live my whole life believing I am stupid”.

Propection on Linked’In was based on search for Private investors, and after accepting my demand, I send them an invitation for a conversation. Some of them accept with some fear of having to buy something, others with some curiosity and a real exchange on possibilities.

One of the first reply came from Japan, then Canada, and surprisingly, a Swiss company showed a real particular interest in the social media project. If needed, they can confirm the project is based on reality, not on ideas, but on reality. We start some brainstorming groups to go deeper in the concept of the social media, and I am a bit surprised that USA, the leading country of the “free entreprise” is a bit late on that! I would like other froups to start on other continents. A first valuation of the project gives a value of 4 B USD (or any currency)!

To give more precision:

I would like 30% of the donations to come from the crowd, the rest can come from investors. I do accept any help from anywhere to raise funds, to relay the projects! Because it is really time consuming!

There has been 5 sources fo revenues identified, with advertising!

I would like to start other groups on other continents with interested partners!

Now! More prospection! More prospection! More prospection!

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“In Milgram’s first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40) of experiment participants administered the experiment’s final massive 450-volt shock

Thomas Blass of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County performed a meta-analysis on the results of repeated performances of the experiment. He found that while the percentage of participants who are prepared to inflict fatal voltages ranged from 28% to 91%, there was no significant trend over time and the average percentage for US studies (61%) was close to the one for non-US studies (66%).”

Extracted from the article.

In some other représentations, it is similar as if a parental image, or a power, or an authority figure takes over our personality to cover our own thinking, intelligence to “oblige” us to do Something, whatever punishment is linked to the fact of doing that action or not.

These “authority” figures are all around us, starting by our parents, the teachers, goverment, police, justice, … and we learn to respect them, whatever décisions is taken by them. Goverment likes to build juridiction as “High Authoritiy for …” (I am taking example from France – Haute Autorité Audiovisuelle), where what is said can not be obstructed. It is a kind of official thinking that can not be changed

Now what can be concluded from that experiment when we go on internet to find innovation, crowdfunding, where there is not a large authority jurisdiction to rule behaviours. This is non exhaustive.

the closest the authority figure is, the best effect it gives. We usually trust people around us, not a “foreigner”, an “alien”. That affects innovators coming from an “out of the box” thinking, or neglecting “butterly effects”. It is difficult to say “no” to someone in front of you, even if you think you are acting wrong. On crwodfundings, you have 2 times more chances of success (65%) if you have a fan base, where you exercise your authority, than no fan base (the remaining 35%).

few people use their ability to think, they reproduce authority behaviour, even if they think “it is not right”. That why experts are usually wrong for prédictions. It is even more efficient if it is scientific. Castes are based on the reproductibility of a thinking, beliefs system, that kills people who want to leave.

Personally, I like to think an authority to show us the direction, not a power capable of punishment. That why if you participate to my crowdfunding campaigns, first you are free to come, and second you will ask you to exercise your ability to think, not to reproduce a guru thinking of any kind.

One would think that someone who wants a create a social media is a bit crazy!

Lets get some insight on the main figures for a “market” study. It will be developed on different parts.

THE WORLD

A first question could be to look at the relatonship between the world population and the use of internet. This is sumarized in the chart below (population from Wikipedia; % of internet users from Wikipedia). On average, 43.4% of the world population is using Internet. This is very large, but the largest populations do not use it by maximizing their potential. Total world population is 7 billions in 2011.

Rank

Country (or dependent territory)

Population

% of world population

% Internet User

1

China

1,379,310,000

18.50%

49.30%

2

India

1,330,780,000

17.80%

European Union

510,056,011

3

United States

324,709,000

4.35%

87.36%

4

Indonesia

260,581,000

3.49%

5

Brazil

206,802,000

2.77%

57.60%

6

Pakistan

194,534,000

2.61%

7

Nigeria

186,987,000

2.51%

42.68%

9

Russia

146,691,020

1.97%

70.52%

10

Mexico

128,632,000

1.73%

44.39%

11

Japan

126,685,000

1.70%

90.58%

12

Philippines

103,164,000

1.38%

14

Vietnam

92,700,000

1.24%

17

Germany

82,175,700

1.10%

86.19%

19

Turkey

78,741,053

1.06%

51.04%

20

Thailand

68,145,000

0.91%

21

France

66,790,000

0.90%

83.75%

22

United Kingdom

65,112,000

0.87%

91.61%

23

Italy

60,665,551

0.81%

61.96%

24

South Africa

55,654,000

0.75%

49.00%

27

South Korea

50,501,405

0.68%

84.33%

30

Spain

46,812,000

0.63%

76.19%

31

Argentina

43,850,000

0.59%

64.70%

34

Algeria

40,400,000

0.54%

36

Poland

38,672,000

0.52%

66.60%

38

Canada

36,332,400

0.49%

87.12%

39

Morocco

34,111,100

0.46%

56.80%

40

Saudi Arabia

32,248,000

0.43%

63.70%

51

Australia

24,243,600

0.33%

84.56%

53

Taiwan

23,514,750

0.32%

83.99%

59

Romania

19,760,000

0.26%

54.08%

63

Chile

18,191,900

0.24%

72.35%

65

Netherlands

17,056,100

0.23%

93.17%

77

Belgium

11,327,986

0.15%

85.00%

78

Cuba

11,239,004

0.15%

79

Tunisia

11,154,400

0.15%

46.16%

89

Sweden

9,938,648

0.13%

92.52%

90

United Arab Emirates

9,856,000

0.13%

95

Austria

8,741,753

0.12%

99

Switzerland

8,364,100

0.11%

87.00%

117

Norway

5,236,826

0.07%

96.30%

123

New Zealand

4,723,610

0.06%

85.50%

133

Uruguay

3,480,222

0.05%

61.46%

139

Qatar

2,401,598

0.03%

91.49%

THE SOCIAL MEDIA

Now if we look at social networks, Wikipedia regiters (non extensively) 207 social media networks. The 20 first by users numbers are :

N°

Name

Description/focus

Date launched

Registered users

1

Google+

General

2011

1’600’000’000

2

Facebook

2004

1’280’000’000

3

Twitter

General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates

2006

645’750’000

4

Qzone

General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users

480’000’000

5

Indaba Music

Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking.

300’000’000

6

Sina Weibo

Social microblogging site in mainland China.

2009

300’000’000

7

Habbo

General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat room and user profiles.

2000

268’000’000

8

Tumblr

Microblogging platform and social networking website.

2007

226’950’000

9

LinkedIn

Business and professional networking

2003

200’000’000

10

Renren

Significant site in China. Was known as 校内 (Xiaonei) until August 2009.

160’000’000

11

VK

General, including music upload, listening and search. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics.

2006

149’409’900

12

Bebo

General

2005

117’000’000

13

Orkut

General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[224]

2004

100’000’000

14

Tagged

General.

2004

100’000’000

15

Netlog

General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab world and Canada’s Québec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.[213]

95’000’000

16

Friendster

Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain

2002

90’000’000

17

hi5

General. Popular in Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very popular in the United States.

2003

80’000’000

18

Flixster

Movies and TV series

2007

63’000’000

19

MyLife

Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerly Reunion.com)

51’000’000

20

Classmates.com

School, college, work and the military

1995

50’000’000

YouTube, that is not listed here claims to have more than a billion users (2010)

This is a pretty new industry. It there a kind of Learning experience for new comers? or is it a step by step improvement?

The leader represents 23% of total population.

China and the rest of the world doesn’t seem to mix together that well.